He seems perfectly fit to be a Supreme Court Justice. I hope that’s where he lands because he could serve this country in that capacity for many decades.
“He seems perfectly fit to be a Supreme Court Justice. I hope that’s where he lands because he could serve this country in that capacity for many decades.”
If Cruz is not president, but a SCOTUS justice, there might not be a Constitutional majority in the SCOTUS.
I don’t trust Hillary, or Trump, to pick Constitutional judges.
The next president might be picking up to FOUR SCOTUS justices.
That’s why I’d like to see Ted Cruz as POTUS first, and then a SCOTUS justice.
By lying about an interpretation he knows well, having had the same constitutional law professor, Larry Tribe, as Obama, who never claimed to be a natural born citizen, Ted certainly doesn't belong in the Supreme Court, or the Presidency. Born on foreign soil with claims on his citizenship from three nations, Cuba, Canada and the U.S. and born to only one citizen parent, if his mother was still a citizen, makes Ted ineligible.
The packed court, without Scalia and with only two conservatives, would have to overturn the 14th Amendment and Minor v. Happersett with impact on at least a dozen cases that cited Minor for the definition. That would make anchor babies eligible to the presidency, as well as the King of Jordan and Winston Churchill. Ted is a liar and seems bent upon destroying what is left, after Obama, of the Constitution's citizenship provisions, rendering the difference between naturalized and natural born citizenship a nullity, and allowing Congress to make anyone it wishes president. That could have been done with an amendment or Article V Constitutional Convention, but after almost thirty attempts, 2/3 of Congress and 3/4 of the states have never supported amending Article II Section 1. Cruz wants you to do it now, for him, and forget about that musty old artifact. He wants you to forget about the Constitution and trust him and the media, or you will be called a "Birther" and lose all your friends. The Media, by avoiding any mention of eligibility after Obama, has done what the corrupted courts will not do, interpret the Constitution to suit their goals.
Larry Tribe was honest when he told you in the Boston Globe that Cruz is a hypocrite and liar about the his claimed constitutional conservatism. We may not know the strategy, if there is one, but Ted is telling everyone, with that sly confidence-game smile, that the "Naturalization Amendment" known as the 14th Amendment didn't naturalize him, but made him magically a natural born citizen, born on our soil to parents who were its citizens at the birth, as confirmed by the unanimous Supreme Court in Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, (1875).